Dear Families,
Happy New Year to You and Those You Love!!! I trust you had a very relaxing vacation with wonderful, memory making moments. I pray 2015 will be a great year of rich blessings for you and your family. We are very excited to begin the second half of our year. Lots of curriculum and many standards will be covered in the next few months and you will see incredible growth in your child.
THANK YOU – With a grateful heart, I want to thank all of the FCS families for the beautiful expression of love given to all Fresno Christian teachers and staff in a Christmas donation gift check. We appreciate your generosity in making our Christmas time with family and friends special. All of the teachers and staff also wish to to thank the Parents Supporting Teachers Board for the beautiful Christmas bag filled with festive, holiday delights! What a special gift that was. May God return to you ten fold the blessing you have been to us.
LANGUAGE ARTS – We will continue working in our Anthology book, as well as using our leveled readers which give great practice in applying our phonetic skills. When reading at home, be asking the questions who, what, when and where questions. We will also be focusing on the problem and the solution in our stories.
WRITING – We will be focusing on a “Narrative About Oneself”.
MATH – We will will beginNumbers and Patterns to 100. This is the foundation of place value where regrouping begins in second grade. Remember to faithfully do 4 minute math drills at home.
HEALTH AND NUTRITION -We will be starting a unit on Health and Nutrition. We will be studying the four food groups and what constitutes healthy eating. If you have any magazines with pictures of food items in them that we could use to cut out and categorize, please send with your child. Many thanks! I would also like to invite any parent who is in the health or medical field to come and share with the children about their professions. Let me know if you would be willing to come and share with us. The children are so proud when someone they love comes and shares.
SOCIAL SCIENCE – We will will start Unit 5 which is entitled All About People and will also focus on the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. and what God’s Word says about discrimination.
BIBLE – We will be studying Gideon. Beginning Friday, Jan. 9th, First Graders will be writing their Bible Verses on the back of their Spelling Test, below Dictation. Practice at least once or twice at home writing the verse. No points are taken off for spelling, however, sometimes I will throw out a challenge for those who can write the verse perfectly with correct spelling and punctuation. There will be a surprise for that accomplishment. They will know ahead of time when the “Challenge Friday” will be. This is great practice in learning how to edit our writing.
PEACH BLOSSOM – You have received the requirements for Peach Blossom before Christmas break. I have also included the handout in Monday’s take home packet, as well as tips for learning your selection.. Your child needs to choose a poem, and send it to school by Wed., Jan.14th. I received several before Christmas vacation. Your child should practice his/her poem a few minutes each day. Classroom evaluations will be Friday, January 23rd.This will be for students only. On Monday, January 26th, those chosen will participate in our Peach Blossom Assembly at 12:30 PM in North Lobby Chapel. All are invited to attend for this Assembly.
SHOW AND TELL – This week will be Team A.
WORLD’S FINEST CHOCOLATES – PST will start distributing boxes of THE WORLD’S FINEST CHOCOLATE this week for our New Year’s Fundraiser. You will get a flyer on Monday with more info.. Easy to sell and still only $1.00 each! Parents MUST sign for the boxes of chocolate. Students cannot sign them out on their own. (Once opened, the boxes CANNOT be returned.) More details will be given to the students this week. Have fun selling lots of chocolate!!!!!
CALENDAR
1-5– School resumes – Happy New Year!!!
1-11 – Happy 7th Birthday Sienna Lee
1-14 -Peach Blossom Poem Due
1-19- Martin Luther King Holiday – No School
1-22 – Happy 7th Birthday Austin Kinzle
1-24- Classroom Peach Blossom Presentations
1-26 – Peach Blossom Assembly – 12:30 PM – North Lobby Chapel ( All Invited)
2-2 – 2-6 – Parent Teacher Conferences -School dismissed at 12:00 PM
2-9 – Lincoln’s Birthday – No School
2-12 – Happy 7th Birthday James Emerian
2-13- Happy Valentine’s Day!! Party 1:20 – 2:40 PM
2-16 – President’s Day – No School
2-20 – Happy 7th Birthday Lincoln Williams
2-20 – PST Elementary Talent Show
2-26 – Happy 7th Birthday Jordyn DeGroot
Spirit Day is every Friday. Please wear your favorite FCS shirt.
Spelling – Jan. 5-9- Lesson 20
go
no
so
boat
coat
rode
home
hope
old
told
give
said
angel
Bible Verse – Jan. 5-9
The Lord’s blessing is our greatest strength. Proverbs 10:22 10 pts.